{"id":1321,"date":"2005-01-29T12:34:05","date_gmt":"2005-01-29T12:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/29\/after_the_parti\/"},"modified":"2024-11-28T01:01:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T06:01:14","slug":"after_the_parti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/29\/after_the_parti\/","title":{"rendered":"After the Parties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Saturday morning in the gay coffeehouse<\/strong> is yet another change of pace. I\u2019m waking myself up, nursing a hot cup of Earl Grey and still trying to finish my lesson plans, but just about everyone else here is winding down from their evening\u2019s festivities. A couple of punk-rock transmen, a guy with no shirt on under his heavy pea coat, a wild-eyed meth addict in the same dirty sweats I saw him wearing when I had dinner last night, and a couple of Larry Kramer doppelgangers in leather pants who are buying breakfast for a pair of painfully teenage rent boys. It\u2019s all a little exotic and yet a little bleak, as these things often seem to be. There was also a little old lady drinking some tea for a while, but I couldn\u2019t tell what she thought about the whole scene. If she lives in the neighborhood, she&#8217;s probably as blas\u00e9 as I am, in her own way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday morning in the gay coffeehouse is yet another change of pace. I\u2019m waking myself up, nursing a hot cup of Earl Grey and still trying to finish my lesson plans, but just about everyone else here is winding down from their evening\u2019s festivities. A couple of punk-rock transmen, a guy with no shirt on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/29\/after_the_parti\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;After the Parties&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultragay","category-ultrapersonal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71587,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions\/71587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}